Company Market Report Presentations

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Company Market ReportPresentations
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Purpose and Directions

• Purpose of assignment
• Share the findings of your company market report
• To develop effective presentation planning and
  delivery skills
• Directions
• Your group will prepare a 10 minute presentation
  based on your Company Market Report.
• Use eight-ten PowerPoint slides
• Each member of your group should speak for
  approximately two minutes.
• Your group should be prepared to answer questions.

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Boardroom Presentations

• The audience is your client company
• You are reporting to your client the results of
  an analysis you have conducted about their
  industry
• You are concluding about the favourability of
  your clients future within that industry
• Presentations will take place around a boardroom
  table

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Organization of your Presentation

• Effective presentations have a distinct
• Opening,
• Body, and
• Closing

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Content Opening

• Attention-getting
• Authoritative quotation
• Rhetorical question
• Declarative statement
• Scenario
• Anecdote
• Present a clear outline

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Content Main Body

• Meaningful
• Clients want to hear clear statements supported
  by different types of quality evidence (facts,
  opinions, calculations, reasoning)
• Examples
• Comparisons
• Quotations
• Findings
• Transitions (mini-summary and mini-preview)
• In addition to strong demand, the competitive
  environment appears favourable for the firm.

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Content Closing

• The closing is your opportunity to reinforce what
  you have just said.
• Close with conviction
• The audience should know when you have come to
  the end of your presentation
• Use a declarative statement or authoritative
  quote
• Use a delivery style that emphasizes closure
• You should not have to tell them (e.g. Thats
  all we have or Thats it.)

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Delivery

• Engage your audience
• Speak to your audience and what they value
• For managers like you, The important thing
  for investors to remember
• What this means to you is As a result youll
  gain
• Speak clearly and effectively
• Verbal use clear, simple, relevant wording (see
  next slide)
• Vocal practice the quality (pitch, volume,
  rate, pauses) and intonation of your voice
• Look good
• Business attire, posture, facial, eye contact
• Plan and practice (e.g. dress rehearsal)

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Use simple, clear wording

• If strike isnt settled quickly it may last a
  while
• Astronaut takes blame for gas in space
• Prostitutes appeal to Pope
• Panda mating fails veterinarian takes over
• Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?

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Delivery

• Use PowerPoint slides effectively
• Simple
• Meaningful (support for your delivery)
• Clear (can you read the slides in the actual
  room?)
• Consistent
• Pictorial
• Colourful

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Evaluation

• Your presentation will be graded on the following
  criteria
• Individual component (mark out of 15)
• Group delivery (mark out of 15)

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Presentation Logistics

• Before class
• Save to a memory stick for an easy upload and
  consider emailing yourself a copy. Bring a
  paper-copy of your slides (as a back-up) and a
  handout for me.
• The first group to present should login to the
  system 15 minutes before class starts.
• Each group should then open their presentation
  before the presentations begin.
• During class
• You will receive a warning when your group has
  one minute left to present. Your presentation
  will be stopped at 10 minutes.
• Be prepared for questions
• As one group finishes its presentation and begins
  to answer questions, the next presenting group
  should step to the podium and open their
  PowerPoint presentation.

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Schedule of Presentations
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Schedule of Presentations
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Camden 004 Enter the building on Hillcrest
Street side 004 is
through the lobby and to the right
EG 13
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Admin

• Exchange Session
• NH 20, 7pm tonight!
• Reports due Friday at 4pm, NH 214
• Monday Dec 1
• Exam overview
• Course evaluation

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